Editors should strive to improve the quality of Child Health Nursing Research. Editors should provide guidelines about research and publication ethics to researchers and information about the submission process and the review system to authors and reviewers. Editors should strive to maintain a fair and blind peer-review system by choosing suitable reviewers in their area of research expertise to review manuscripts. In order to ensure that the peer-review system is effective, editors should develop and update a database of reviewers. The editor-in-chief should identify eligible editorial board members, and provide them with information about Child Health Nursing Research. The editor-in-chief should discuss the publication of Child Health Nursing Research with editorial board members regularly. Editors should keep information about manuscripts, authors, and reviewers confidential. Editors should not use ideas expressed in the manuscript for the editor’s research without the authors’ consent. Editors should evaluate manuscripts objectively and appropriately without any bias or personal interest. Editors are required to be alert to misconduct or ethical issues in manuscripts, and to follow the standards of research and publication ethics. When an editor finds a fundamental error in a published manuscript, he or she should immediately initiate the process of resolution, including an expression of concern, correction, and/or withdrawal of the manuscript, as required. The resolution process will be initiated following the flowchart provided by the COPE (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).

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Instructions to Reviewers

Child Health Nursing Research has a double-blind peer-review system to improve the quality of manuscripts. Reviewers have the professional responsibility to assist authors in improving their manuscript by giving expert advice to them in the peer-review process. Reviewers also contribute to editorial decisions. When reviewers are asked to review a manuscript, they should keep the information about the manuscript confidential. Reviewers should not use ideas expressed in the manuscript for their own research without the authors’ consent, and should not contact the authors personally without permission from the editor. Reviewers should review the manuscript objectively and appropriately without any bias or personal interest. If reviewers have a conflict of interest when reviewing the manuscript, they should consult with the editor. Reviewers are required to respond to the invitation to review the manuscript by the scheduled time, and to finish reviewing the manuscript in a timely manner. Reviewers should present their comments about the manuscript to the authors courteously. When reviewers suspect misconduct or ethical issues in the manuscript, they should immediately inform the editor and cooperate with the editor regarding any next steps to be taken. The resolution process will be initiated following the flowchart provided by the COPE (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).